Pebble Beach is a small private coastal unincorporated community in Monterey County , California which is best known as a golf destination and also one of the highest profile spots in the US. Technically, Pebble Beach is not a city at all, but rather a corporation owned by the Pebble Beach Company and managed as a small town. Residents therefore pay homeowners' fees in lieu of city property taxes . The community's post office is named Pebble Beach, but the U.S. Census Bureau regards the land as part of the larger census-designated place of Del Monte Forest . The area is also partly administrated also by the Del Monte Forest Foundation , a non-profit organization designated by Monterey County and the California Coastal Commission , and comprising of a volunteer board of 12 persons interested in preserving the open space within the Del Monte Forest. Except for two representatives of the Pebble Beach Company, all must be property owners and residents of the Forest.